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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2014, 6:28 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2014, 6:28 PM MDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
334 WFUS54 KMAF 240028 TORMAF NMC015-240045- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0003.140524T0028Z-140524T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 628 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 625 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITES CITY...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... WHITES CITY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3230 10440 3229 10411 3200 10413 3201 10436 TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 181DEG 18KT 3210 10424 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 23 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| May 23, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 56 min |
| May 23, 6:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| May 23, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 23, 6:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| May 23, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| May 23, 7:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 23 min |
| May 23, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 62 min |
| May 23, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 23, 8:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 22 min |
| May 23, 8:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 29 min |
| May 23, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| May 23, 9:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 32 min |
| May 23, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 57 min |
| May 23, 11:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 43 min |
| May 23, 11:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| May 23, 11:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 24, 12:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 24, 1:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 24, 1:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 24, 1:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 24, 2:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 67 min |
| May 24, 2:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 min |
| May 24, 3:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 59 min |
| May 24, 3:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 min |
| May 24, 5:42 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:22 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.